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What Works Clearinghouse


The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) reviews research on today’s most pressing topics in education. Topics studied by the WWC are nominated by email and in meetings with practitioners, policymakers, and leaders of education associations.

The WWC prioritizes nominated topics based on the following criteria:

  • Potential to improve important student outcomes;
  • Applicability to a broad range of students or to particularly important subpopulations;
  • Policy relevance and perceived demand within the education community; and
  • Availability of scientific studies.

For each topic area, the WWC produces a range of materials, which may include topic reports, intervention reports, practice guides, quick reviews of single studies, and research review protocols.

Please contact us if you would like to suggest a topic.

PO Box 2393
Princeton, NJ 08543-2393
Phone: 1-866-503-6114